With the weather granting a break from the icy grip that’s been the exception rather than the rule this season, the WinterruptionWPG music festival provides a reason to come alive even if it isn’t the dead of winter.
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Now in its fifth year, the week-long effort from the West End Cultural Centre and Real Love Winnipeg presents 17 shows with 35 artists at six venues – WECC, Good Will Social Club, Bulldog Event Centre, Times Change(d), The Forks Market, and the Canadian Museum for Human Rights.
International flavour is provided by Making Movies, a Kansas City band melding Latin rhythms into classic Rock, Meule, a French trio blending soft kraut rock with post-modern psychedelia, and folk/blues punker Sunny War from L.A., who brings the anarchist gospel.
They are added to a solid mix of cross-Canada talent and a strong batch of local flavour.
CMHR will host the second annual Winterruption Round Dance on Saturday from 5-11 p.m. The free event includes a pipe ceremony, feast, numerous guest singers, and contests with seating for about 400 and is presented with sakihwe festival.
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If you need cold to really feel the festival, start making travel plans for WinterruptionYYQ in Churchill from Feb. 8-11, featuring Tom Cochrane, Boy Golden, Andrina Turenne, and Ila Barker among others.
Schedules and more at winterruptionwpg.ca.
The Good Will Social Club closes its doors as of Feb. 1, with an Indigenous farewell featuring drag performances, DJs and a market on Jan. 31.
After a slate of Winterruption shows, it closes the weekend with a busy Sunday that displays the range of shows at the Portage Avenue venue. First up from 2-4 p.m. is instrumental kids rock band We’re Only Here for the Snacks followed by the WackyDoodle Dance Party. Then it’s the final Queer Bingo before Disco Needs a Squeeze presents Punk’s Last Stand featuring hardcore bands Imploders from Toronto and White Collar from Victoria along with locals Jug, Negative Charge, and Nuclear Man.
The 33rd annual Winnipeg New Music Festival runs through Feb. 2, primarily with shows at the Centennial Concert Hall but there’s also intriguing peripheral events including Friday’s Neon Venus Lab: Ephemeral Drift at Darling Bar on McDermot Avenue.
It promises a multi-sensory atmosphere across two floors with analog projections displayed on suspended semi-translucent fabrics during a musical performance. There’s a dress code that should be easy for most to match: all black.
Bay area thrashers Machine Head bring the Slaughter the Martour to the Burt on Sunday, also featuring L.A.’s Fear Factory, Sweden’s Orbit Culture, and Louisville’s Gates to Hell.
Sookram’s Brewing on Warsaw Avenue throws its annual Summer in the Winter Party on Saturday from 2-11 p.m., featuring four new brews in a tropical beer flight, a Brizzy Boys taco pop-up and a steelpan performance from the Blackwood Sisters.
Also thinking ahead to warmer days is the Manitoba Outdoors Show this weekend at Red River Ex Place.
Over 100 exhibitors will showcase products and services in the fishing/hiking/camping/hunting/paddling spectrum, with stage presentations every hour.
And the Winnipeg Wine Festival public tastings are this weekend at RBC Convention Centre. The fundraising event for Special Olympics Manitoba focuses on the wines of Argentina this time around.
Local author Michael McMullen launches his second novel, Garbage Boy, Sunday at One Great City Brewing in Madison Square. The book is paired with an exclusive beer, the Garbage Boy Golden Ale, with $5 from each book sale until Feb. 29 donated to Resource Assistance for Youth.
The Teachers’ Lounge, a German film from Turkish director Ilker Catak that garnered an Oscar nomination for Best International Film Feature, opens Friday at Dave Barber Cinematheque in the Exchange District with screenings through Wednesday.
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